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Meanings of temptress in anglès
portuguès
mulher fatal català
tigressa A woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive.
Synonyms
Examples for "siren"
Examples for "siren"
1
A siren clangs from Batsuren's iPhone: A new order has come in.
2
Not five minutes ago, Dan Gurley went by, with his siren on.
3
She has lived here 18 years and never before heard the siren.
4
See the moment the siren sounds in the 1971 WAFL Grand Final.
5
In the distance, he could hear the faint moan of a siren.
1
And the enchantress's cheek had twitched nervously when Miralissa mentioned the Order.
2
It is where the half enchantress Kostbera warns Hogni against leaving her:
3
So long as the enchantress was speaking, the spell was wholly impotent.
4
The town of Circeii, which Macaulay associates here with Circe, the enchantress.
5
Bring me my coven sister Sysselore, who was Syrcé the enchantress .
1
And thus the man-eater was shut in with the three sleeping men.
2
The man-eater lurked in a wood that was hard by the sheep-run.
3
Shall I wander to the west, the fierce Mohawk,-theman-eater,-ismy foe.
4
Left her family and friends behind, to worship the glittering man-eater called Manhattan.
5
Cautiously the youth crept out upon the trail of the man-eater.
1
Seductive, yes; but nothing of Delilah in her or in that music.
2
Helena didn't look young enough to carry an offbeat name like Delilah.
3
The second woman who had come to occupy Bette's attention was Delilah.
4
See more pictures of Delilah, and hear more about Mayer's process, below.
5
The rulers of the Philistines came to Delilah and said to her:
1
The primary image is the femme fatale, the woman fatal to man.
2
Perhaps you think it is amusing, to play the femme fatale in truth.
3
The cool beauty of the femme fatale is another transformation of chthonian ugliness.
4
The femme fatale was produced by the mystique of connection between mother and child.
5
Working girl, femme fatale, lady with a past.
Usage of temptress in anglès
1
The temptress drew back a little, seated herself; yielded to troublous thought.
2
The sweet auburn temptress ran up and flung her arms about him.
3
SO, EVEN with all the cosmetic surgery she remains a fickle temptress.
4
I will NOT go was my answer to the sweet temptress.
5
He was ready to kill the temptress as he would a beautiful viper.
6
So Tiberius fancies me a temptress and dares not even look at me.
7
Juba says you're a temptress who guards her chastity at knifepoint.
8
Her last act must be to pluck him from his temptress.
9
The temptress, never once doubting her power, smiled most bewitchingly, her hands eloquent.
10
Meg, you luscious temptress, you decided to leave the old fart after all!
11
Yet the worst of his anger focused on his wife, the irresistible temptress.
12
How, therefore, shall we know the temptress and the fruit for what they are?
13
The West Course here has been a temptress to McGinley.
14
And when Lilla had shaken her head, the blonde, lean temptress exclaimed in exasperation:
15
He might have been Adam, and she the original temptress.
16
She was his temptress, and I mean to make her share all the punishment.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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